Lucas - Gorham is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,172 people and just one neighborhood, Lucas - Gorham is the 164th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Lucas - Gorham was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Lucas - Gorham is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lucas - Gorham is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lucas - Gorham who work in office and administrative support (14.48%), management occupations (13.48%), and sales jobs (12.90%).
Also of interest is that Lucas - Gorham has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Lucas - Gorham is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Lucas - Gorham citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.98% of adults 25 and older in Lucas - Gorham have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lucas - Gorham in 2022 was $35,461, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,844 for a family of four. However, Lucas - Gorham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lucas - Gorham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lucas - Gorham residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lucas - Gorham include German, English, Irish, French, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Lucas - Gorham is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lucas - Gorham are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.7% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Lucas - Gorham, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.